Introducing new health interventions

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7533.64

BMJ 2006;332:64-65 (14 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7533.64

Editorial

Introducing new health interventions

There's still a long way to go to get health technology evidenceinto practice

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Throughout the world, healthcare innovations have put pressureon limited resources while governments and patients have demandedtop quality, yet cost effective, services. This makes it increasinglydifficult for anyone who plans, provides, or receives healthservices to judge which intervention to use—what works,how well, at what cost, for whom, in what circumstances, andwith what impact? Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinaryspecialty whose purpose is to bring together the evidence toanswer those questions.¹ It boasts a thriving internationalscientific society (Health Technology Assessment International;www.htai.org) and a global network of more than 40 public sectoragencies (International Network of Agencies for Health TechnologyAssessment; www.inahta.org). It evaluates the costs, effectiveness,and sometimes the wider impact of any intervention used in thecare of patients, including medicines, devices, techniques,and skills. In the UK, for example, the HTA programme (www.ncchta.org)has . . . [Full text of this article]

John Gabbay, emeritus professor

Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX
(jg3@soton.ac.uk)

Tom Walley, professor of clinical pharmacology

Departmentt of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GF

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